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1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging element; a lens unit that focuses light on the imaging element; a light source located around the lens unit; a light guide body that surrounds the lens unit and that guides light emitted from the light source; and a framing member surrounding the light guide body and having a rectangular frame shape, wherein the light guide body includes an engagement concave part that engages an engagement convex part of the framing member, swelling parts swelling toward a center of the framing member are formed at four corners of the framing member, and the engagement convex part of the framing member is provided so as to project at each of the swelling parts in a direction in which light is emitted from the light source.
2. The imaging apparatus of claim 1 , further comprising: ranging lenses disposed at the swelling parts, wherein the swelling parts each include a through hole through which light for distance measurement passes.
3. The imaging apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the light guide body includes a positioning convex part projecting from a side surface of the light guide body, and the framing member includes a positioning concave part into which the positioning convex part is inserted.
4. The imaging apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the light guide body is toric, the light guide body includes a plurality of said positioning convex parts at positions rotationally symmetric with respect to the light guide body, and the framing member includes a plurality of said positioning concave parts through which the plurality of positioning convex parts are inserted.
5. The imaging apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the plurality of positioning concave parts of the framing member are regions each sandwiched between two adjacent ones of the swelling parts located at each of four edges of the framing member.
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February 9, 2021
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